Something other than the blog has been calling me this afternoon.

When an Oregonian editorial has me using Dictionary.com ten minutes after brewing the day’s first cup of coffee, to determine whether “fatuous” or “spurious” should go in a blog post title, you know…

Subtitle: Fun with computers Quiz: Which bridge was this photo taken from?

For everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, verse 1 The Oregonian‘s Editorial in Sunday’s paper justly supports spending $800m to build two new…

When my mother told me this morning during our weekly phone call between Portland, Oregon and Devon, England that the BBC had been prevented from airing a report on the “cash-for-honours” scandal, I…

This beautiful creature was spotted near the hot springs pool at Virgin Warm Springs in Nevada. We found the nearby opal fields less impressive, but Steve’s taken some good photos of burros along…

The BBC Magazine web site runs a regular weekly feature titled Ten Things. It includes a guest photograph of any ten things, and lists of stuff that’s usually intriguing and not something you…

Yesterday’s Tribune prints an article by Nick Budnick regarding City Council’s new rule requiring the Portland Development Commission (PDC) to spend at least 30% of urban renewal district funds on affordable housing. Article…

At Burning Man, 2002, photograph by Steve Fritz. See artists’ descriptions and others’ photographs of many of that festival’s Artwork here. From the Fool’s Ark entry, in “The Unknown World” section: “Dadara’s Fool’s…

There are two Time Certain items on Wednesday morning’s Portland City Council Agenda: 9:30 a.m. (usually more like 9:40 or so) – Portland Citizen Disability Advisory Committee work plan for 2007; and 10:15…